Roaring meltdown #2

I've rarely seen the gorges of the Chiusella river in such a spate:

the exceptionally snowy winter we had this year is coming to an end

with a loud roar!

Taken Sunday afternoon at the top of the Valchiusella, a beautiful

narrow valley of the western Alps, this is a stitch of 4 vertical frames.

Your C&C are as always highly appreciated, thanks in advance for your

time.

 

Details: Eos 50D, Tokina ATX-Pro 12-24 f4, tripod. 0,6" f16, no

filters. double RAW processing and exposure blending, stitching.

 

Compression really hurts here, please click it larger for much better

details.

La velocidad de disparo crean un textura al agua formidable, unido a ese color azulado le dan una limpieza magnifica a esta foto. Felicidades

Very nicely done. I feel like I am right there.

Great shutter speed and composition. What a beautiful place.

 

 

 

Pedro.

Una gran toma. perfectos tonos y texturas.

Paolo, I love the dynamism of this image. It is apparent that the water level is at or beyond capacity and that what is happening is uncommon. That is the success of this image, it conveys those dynamics. Now, when you say exposure blending, does this mean you are double processing the single RAW files and then blending or are you actually taking multiple exposures of each frame at capture and then blending. I have attempted multiple exposure blending with stitched panos and have encountered some challenges. I guess I am curious to know if you are practicing the same approach and if you are having success. I have given up on the use of grads, I simply don't care for the results compared to the results I get with blending multiple exposures. Thanks for any feedback and if this is something you care not to share, I totally understand!

Thanks all for your feedback, that's highly appreciated.

Mark, there's really nothing which I care not to share, why should I? :-) I learnt what I know of photo and processing techniques from others, but thanks God what I learnt doesn't make me take the same pictures as theirs... :-))

 

In this particular case I have double processed the same RAW file of each single frame, I manually made the exposures blending and, finally, I stitched the blended frames together, all in PS CS4. This works better IMO in most cases, as with multiple exposures taken in the field you will have to manage slight but sometimes annoying differences between the exposures. Of course you have no choice if the dynamic range is beyond the +2 / -2 EV, but in this case I take care of only blending from a second exposures those parts of the picture that are beyond the range - namely the sky, usually. At times I also combine exposure blending and GND filters, mostly when I shoot into the sun at dawn/sunset. It really works fine in smoothing the effect of the graduation and at the end you get a very natural looking image.

Feel free to ask more if you wish,

Cheers,

Paolo